About start.me

What is start.me?

start.me offers a web-based personal start page with an integrated bookmarks manager, support for news feeds and a library with thousands of widgets that help you connect to popular services and custom data sources.

Introduction video

Blog

2018-02-15T16:04:31.000000000+00:00
Last week the Dutch Jaarbeurs opened its doors to IPON 2018, the ninth bi-annual exposition dedicated to educational innovation and ICT. Because a lot of educators use start.me, we felt we had to make an appearance. The exhibit addressed ICT professionals and teachers on every level. The theme of...

2018-02-06T20:11:34.000000000+00:00
One of the hidden talents of start.me is our knowledge of useful websites, for example in the field of Lifestyle. With no less than 650.000 active users and over 30 million visits a month, this comes as no surprise. Our users point us to sites you may have missed. Find them all in our section apt...

2018-02-02T16:26:02.000000000+00:00
In the past weeks, we have worked on a new design, support for a dark page theme and custom theme colors. Today we continue our journey and add another customization option: dark widgets themes. This new feature, that allows you to create widgets with a dark background and white text, was a littl...

2018-01-30T15:18:58.000000000+00:00
Guest blogger Melanie Dawn writes about the future of social bookmarking after the demise of forerunner Delicious. The new owner of its famous domain is the one-man enterprise called Pinboard. Does this self-proclaimed ‘Social bookmarking for introverts’ have what it takes? Delicious used to be a...

2018-01-23T16:55:08.000000000+00:00
Last Friday we announced the immediate launch of the new 2018 design for start.me. We received a lot of feedback. There were some compliments, but we received some complaints and requests as well. The main feedback we got was about the color of the new design. Some of our users were quite fond of...

2018-01-19T16:34:48.000000000+00:00
The last design update to start.me has been quite a while. And that’s not a problem. Design changes are not a goal in itself. But we feel that a modern-day bookmark manager should look modern. So, we decided to update the looks of your favorite bookmarking app. We have been working on these chang...

2018-01-18T19:49:38.000000000+00:00
With everything that happened last year, you might have missed this tiny nugget of information: Delicious is no more. The company that coined the term ‘social bookmarking’, back in 2003. Delicious – by some still known as Del.icio.us – has discontinued its services last summer. Hailed as the prom...

2018-01-16T13:29:51.000000000+00:00
I’ve been using computers since Hector was a pup and I was one of the first to jump onto the Internet when it became available in the 1980s. It was another few years before the first browser appeared and according to a study by MIT Researcher Matthew Gray, by the end of 1993, there were…
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2018-01-09T16:25:00.000000000+00:00
Assorted tales of an information hoarder I didn’t grow up in the Internet era. I grew up in a time when, if you didn’t understand the lyrics of your favorite song, you just made them up. And then you told yourself they were correct. You even tried to convince others that you had it right.…
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2017-12-28T15:32:35.000000000+00:00
As you know we just can’t help ourselves: we have to improve your favorite bookmarks manager. Making your links easier to find, better to customize and more beautiful to watch: that’s our main concern. That’s why we’ve decided your trusty Bookmarks widget could be better. We are proud to present ...

Arjen Robijn

Founder
Arjen is a founder of various successful online companies. Arjen's last company Global Sports Media/Soccerway.com got acquired in 2011 by the PERFORM Group.

Email

arjen@start.me

Location

The Hague, Netherlands

Linkedin

pub/arjen-robijn/3/a20/117

Paul Kamer

Lead Developer
Paul has worked as a web developer and software architect for more than 8 years. He previously worked Global Sports Media and joined to support the team in making start.me the best start page there is.

Email

paul@start.me

Location

The Hague, Netherlands

Twitter

paulkamer_nl

Linkedin

in/paul-kamer-86366471

Luuk Davidson

Support Member
Luuk is the youngest member of the start.me team and was one of the early adopters of the start.me service. He joined the start.me team to help other people getting started with start.me.

Email

support@start.me

Location

The Hague, Netherlands

Jonathan Roorda

Content Researcher
Jonathan has spent most his professional life working as a sports content editor for companies like Global Sports Media, Cyclingpost and Colombia Reports. Jonathan joined the start.me team to help users find the best and most relevant content to display on their start page.

Michiel de Wit

Co-founder
Michiel is a software professional with a lot of experience in developing enterprise grade web applications. He is a certified Scrum Master and a great proponent of modern software development practices.

Email

michiel@start.me

Location

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Facebook

mcdewit

Linkedin

in/mcdewit

Twitter

michieldewit

Link

http://www.michieldewit.nl

Date

1981-06-28T22:00:00.000Z

Tags

Dancing, Salsa, Snowboarding, Scuba diving

Stefan van Dierendonck

Web Editor
For many years Stefan has been active as a blogger, building and maintaining his own and other websites. He is also the author of two well received novels. Wherever possible he tries to combine modern technology with literary or at least pleasantly legible content.

Email

stefan@start.me

Location

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Twitter

SvDierendonck

Juri Linkov

Web Developer
After graduating from Tallinn University of Technology, Juri worked as developer in Eastern Europe for the Institute of Cybernetics and StartMobile. After his personal frustration caused by the closure of iGoogle and Google Reader, Juri joined the start.me team to develop the best personal start page alternative.

Email

juri@start.me

Location

Tallinn, Estonia

Linkedin

in/jurilinkov

Facebook

link0ff

Léon Rodenburg

Web Developer
During and after his Computer Science studies, Léon worked as a developer for several companies. He came in touch with start.me as a freelancer and assisted in the development of an early version. Léon now studies Chinese and has returned to start.me as a developer.

Email

leon@start.me

Location

Leiden, Netherlands

Facebook

larodenburg

Linkedin

pub/léon-rodenburg/2b/33/14a/nl

Screenshots

Manoah Upson

Manoah is a front-end developer with a passion for creating creative web experiences and designs, built upon a solid basis of modern technologies. He joined the start.me team to make a change.

Email

manoah@start.me

Location

The Hague, Netherlands

Linkedin

in/manoah-upson-128601b4/

Andrei Stavila

Support Member
Andrei lives in the Republic of Moldova and he is responsible for content research in Eastern Europe. He is currently studying at the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.